AN AWESOME MOVIE PEOPLE AINT WATCHING: DREDD
Alex Garland on DREDD |
IGN: What does Judge Dredd mean to you?
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IGN: What was it like watching the finished film with an audience?
Garland: I've
never seen it with an audience. When it's screening for an audience, I leave.
It's not a pleasant process for me.
IGN: What did Judge Dredd creator John Wagner think of the finished
film?
Garland: He likes
it. I got John involved with the film at a very early stage. He was actually in
a way the first person that was contracted by the film. Out of the entire cast
and crew, the first person on the pay-roll as it were, was John. He was there
as someone who understood the character and the world better than anyone. And
could make sure we were doing it properly. So I would show John all the
different cuts, and all the different versions of the script. Then, when we
were editing, I showed him the film at different key intervals just to get his
input. While there was still time to listen to his advice and act on it.
IGN: Were you proud to have made an 18-rated movie that went to the top
of the charts in the UK? That doesn't happen often.
Garland: Well
briefly.
IGN: But it still counts.
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It also would have
been a different movie, and it wouldn't have been a movie I'd have been
interested in making. But that's because I'm thinking about it as someone who
doesn't have to bear the brunt of the financial consequences. So will it make
difference? I suspect not. It may even be harmful.
IGN: If a sequel were to be green-lit, where do you see this story
going from here?
Garland: I've got
all sorts of things that I'd like to do with it. It's a financial equation. I'm
not expecting to work on a sequel. I'm mainly just concerned with this film and
hoping that we did it right and that people like it and get something out of
it.
IGN: But if you were to be given a bigger budget, what aspect of the
Dredd universe would you like to bring to life?
Garland: Outside
Mega City One there's this huge desert called The Radiated Desert and I'd like
the second story to go out there as a sort of voyage of discovery of the world.
It would loosely be based on a John Wagner story called Origins, which is about
Dredd going into how he came to be and how the city came to be. And how the two
things are connected to each other. Then in the third one, If there was a third
one, I'd think about these characters called The Dark Judges, who are these
malevolent supernatural forces. Who are kind of a perversion of the judge
system, holding a kind of dark mirror up to it. But it's so speculative to talk
in these terms, but those are the lines on which I'm thinking of this.
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